7 English Innings and Left-Wing Communism: McKay’s Bolshevization in Britain

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Abbreviations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Prologue 1
6. Part I. Jamaican Beginnings: The Formation of a Black Fabian, 1889–1912
7. 1 A Son of the Soil: Jamaica’s Claude McKay 11
8. 2 Holding the Negro in Subjection: Claude McKay’s Jamaica 65
9. 3 You Caan’ Mek We Shet Up: McKay’s Jamaican Poetry of Rebellion 105
10. 4 The Man Who Left Jamaica: Claude McKay in 1912 173
11. Part II. Coming to America: From Fabianism to Bolshevism, 1912–1919
12. 5 “Six Silent Years”: McKay and America, 1912–1918 199
13. 6 Fighting Back: Claude McKay and the Crisis of 1919 231
14. Part III. England, Their England: McKay’s British Sojourn, 1919–1921
15. 7 English Innings and Left-Wing Communism: McKay’s Bolshevization in Britain 273
16. 8 Making Spring in New Hampshire, the 1917 Club, Standing Up, and Thinking of England 319
17. A Coda 347
18. Notes 351
19. Index 427